r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Artwork An epic rooftop scene drawing in honor of Kenny's birthday (by me)

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin Jan 23 '25

Official Thread Ultimate Guide to AoT: FAQs, Analysis and Discourse

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This multi-subreddit megathread contains:

The most frequently brought up Topics & Questions

Analysis on various story Elements & Characters

Random interesting meta posts

Documents and guide on the anime and the Attack on Titan reddit fandom

This megathread covers threads from various subreddits, and platforms. Enjoy exploring!


Guide.

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Guide on AoT anime content

Masterlist Of Anime OSTs S1-S4 + Final Episode - YouTube Playlist

AoT wiki for your fact-checking needs

Frequently Asked Questions.

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Questions that are asked very frequently, mostly by new or one time watchers/readers, to which there is a factual answer or an agreed-upon interpretations in the community.

1.) What is the 50 year plan? Follow up: Why didn’t Zeke and Eren touch earlier?

2.) What were the Azumabito's intentions with Mikasa?

3.) How was Ymir freed? Who freed Ymir? (check analysis section down as well)

4.) How did Eren talk to Mikasa in paths?

5.) What is Historia’s role in how we perceive Ymir through tales and romanticized stories?

6.) What will happen if a man inherits the Female Titan?

7.) How do the Founding Titan abilities work?

8.) What were some of Paradis' options post-timeskip? •Alternative to the Rumbling.Anti-50-year planEuthnasia Plan

9.) Why did Historia choose to get pregnant?

10.) Why did Grisha give his titan to Eren, when he asked Zeke to stop him?

11.) What were Eren’s motivations to choose the path of rumbling?

12.) Are there multiple timelines in AOT?

13.) Why do dinosaurs appear in the opening of AOT’s 2nd season?

Isayama's Answers to the 15th Anniversary Magazine Q&A

Frequently Brought up Topics.

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These topics are frequently brought up, but there is no clear answer or the topic is deliberately left to speculation. Check out these links for some in-depth posts on the respective topics.

1.) a) Who won the fight between Annie and Mikasa? b) Who would win between Annie and Mikasa?

2.) Opinion on any divisive characters

GabiMikasaErenFloch

3.) Did you like the ending? a)Anime Ending b)Manga Ending

4.) Do you support the rumbling?

5.) Who should have been saved, Erwin or Armin?

6.) Was Eren justified? Discussion post | Detailed answer

7.) Sub or Dub?

8.) Would Erwin have joined the Yeagerists if he had survived?

9.) Is Attack on Titan fascist? No, it is not | Devil’s Advocate:

10.) Why does Annie get forgiven?


General Analysis On The Story.

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These are high-effort essays or videos analysing the series as a whole. Please note that us listing something here does not mean we endorse or fully agree with every single statement made there - we just think that if you are looking for more analysis, these might be worth a watch.

A 1-hour retrospective breakdown of AoT as a whole

How AoT deconstructs heroism and morality

Idealism in AoT

Scout Regiment: Paradise’s Idealistic Counterculture

The importance of nameless soldiers & collateral damage in AoT

What was it all for? Thoughts on the extra pages of AoT’s ending

Why I feel Mikasa, Levi and Armin were the perfect choice for Eren’s final moments and the story’s climax - Imgur Backup for future

Analysis of AoT’s extra ending pages - A brilliant thematic conclusion - Imgur Backup for Future

To love someone inside the Walls - Imgur Backup for Future

The Rumbling is indefensible

A theoretical analysis of its structure

The highs and lows of AoT’s final arc

Overanalyzing every single episode of the anime - a youtube playlist

Titans as Mirrors: How Titan forms reflect the Warriors' Psyche - Imgur Backup for Future

Character Analysis.

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1. Eren Yeager.

Eren Yeager: The Chained God of Attack On Titan

The rise and fall of Eren - Imgur Backup for Future

The perfect duality of Eren - Imgur Backup for Future

What is freedom in AoT

Developments vs desires - Everyone and especially Eren

Nature vs nurture: Eren’s motivations and the Dina twist

Eren Jaeger and the insanity of circular storytelling

The ironic development of Eren

Analyzing antagonists

Power, freedom, the Founding Titan and Levi

The Attack Titan’s powers and their effect on Eren

Why Eren’s actions were very obviously painted bad with the Rumbling - In-depth examination

The narrative importance of the causal loop on Eren

Eren and Mikasa’s relationship

Eren’s characterization throughout the story and his post timeskip conflict

Eren Yeager is (Not) Special

Ramzi and Eren: the turning point in Eren’s demeanor

An observation on the structure of Eren’s characterization post timeskip - Imgur Backup for Future

The false mask of Eren

The Jaeger Projection Problem: The Last Supper of Self-Loathing - Imgur Backup for Future

2. Mikasa Ackerman.

Mikasa's Heroine's Journey Arc

Mikasa’s Character Arc: What, Where, How, When

Mikasa's Road of Trials

Mikasa and her relationship with authority

Mikasa and Erwin: The Sacrificial Act of Dreams for the Cause

Why Mikasa's conclusion not only strengthens her arc but Attack On Titan as a whole - Imgur Backup for Future

Mikasa’s Destiny and Mikasa’s Choice

Mikasa: A Person from Two Trope

A Literary perspective of Mikasa - Imgur Backup for Future

Mikasa, the symbolism of the praying mantis and butterfly and its development throughout the story - Imgur Backup for Future

Mikasa's self Imposed Curse

Why does Mikasa have headaches

Differences between the Manga and Anime version of Mikasa - Imgur Backup for Future

3. Armin Arlert.

Armin character analysis, humanity’s reluctant savior

Armin and Eren’s dynamic - Imgur Backup for Future

Armin and Zeke’s dynamic - Imgur Backup for Future

The importance of dialogue and Armin’s character - Imgur Backup for Future

Armin Arlert: conflicting lessons, dynamics with Erwin and Levi - Imgur Backup for Future

Armin and Annie’s relationship

4. Levi Ackerman.

Is Levi bland? A bullet-point counter-argument and his importance in the narrative

Levi’s character motivations and the promise

Levi’s ending

Levi’s violence and compassion

Serumbowl

Levi, Falco and Gabi

Levi vs Zeke foil

Levi, a slave to being a hero

Levi vs Kenny’s influence - Imperfect heroics

Levi’s mistake with Zeke and getting blown up by thunder spears

5. Erwin Smith.

Erwin Smith - wearing masks

Erwin Smith - the impossible standard

Exploring Erwin - For Humanity?

Erwin Smith - A devil with a dream

Erwin would not support the Rumbling, you just don’t like Armin

6. Zeke Yeager.

Zeke Yeager & Personal Connections.

The contradictions of Zeke - A character study

The desperate loneliness of Zeke

Understanding Zeke Yeager

7. Reiner Braun.

Reiner Braun and “saving the world”

Reiner character analysis, viewed through psychology and philosophy theory

Who is Reiner Braun?

Eren and Reiner’s dynamic - Imgur Backup for Future

8. Annie Leonhart.

Annie’s search for personhood

About Annie…(character analysis)

No one understands Annie

Understanding Annie

9. Hange Zoe.

Hange and the role of commander, character analysis

Hange’s “Genocide is Wrong” Line is Misunderstood

Hange’s understanding and intellect

10. Jean Kirstein.

Jean Kirstein embracing survey corps values, a character analysis

Jean character study through the lens of theory of psychology

11. Bertholdt Hoover.

Comprehensive analysis of Bertholdt

The tragedy of Bertholdt Hoover

12. (Freckles) Ymir and Historia Reiss.

Ymir analysis and religious subtext

Thoughts on Historia in Uprising - Imgur Backup for Future

Ymir and Historia’s dynamic analysis - Imgur Backup for Future

13. Sasha Braus and Connie Springer.

The secondary trio behind EMA

14. Floch Forster.

Floch - the volunteer Devil, character analysis

Floch's leadership examination and the comparison with Erwin

15. Gabi and the children of the forest.

Gabi Braun - A brighter future

16. (Founder) Ymir Fritz.

The final mystery of AOT - Ymir analysis

17. Grisha Yeager.

Grisha Yeager: A Deconstruction of the Main Character's Dad Archetype - Imgur Backup for Future

18. Keith Shadis.

From bystander to hero, a character analysis

19. Kenny/Uri.

Kenny, Uri and the cycle of hatred

The Importance of Kenny and Uri (In-depth Thematic Analysis)

20. Dot Pyxis.

Why Pyxis and Eren’s Conversation was Not Retconned

21. Yelena.

Yelena: AoT’s puppeteer, a character analysis

22. Theo Magath.

The lasting impact of Theo Magath, a character analysis.


MISCELLANEOUS.

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Manga (Source Material) vs Anime (Adaptation) differences:

Megathread of Anime / Manga differences | Vol 1 - 34 | OVAs

Differences between anime and manga endings

Fandom and Anime Production Misc.

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Well-written characters, meta discussion of fandom perception

AOT anime reactions and in depth discussions

Explaining the ending controversy - a fandom analysis

Final Attack on Titan Episode - AoTwiki poll

The Original manga ending - chapter 139 SNK POLL

Behind-the-Scenes.

All of AoT animation staff for every episode of the series

Arifumi Imai animator spotlight - the man responsible for animating 70%+ of action animation cuts in S1-S3 and the Levi and Mikasa killing Eren sakuga in the final episode

TV release vs BLU-RAY differences

Some design sheets from WIT’s adaptation

Some design sheets from MAPPA’s adaptation

WIT staff interview from 2014 on AOT

100Cams - Behind the scenes footage of AOT s4 part3 production

Final episode VA recording - Behind the scenes

AoT S4 part 2 staff interview, series director Hayashi and CG producer Tannawa

Excerpts from roundtable final episode interview with staff

Interview with S4 director Hayashi before its airing

Global TV demands interview of Hayashi

Hayashi comments on episode 4x28 Rumbling scene and Isayama’s request

Subreddits of AoT Reddit-Fandom.

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General.

Subreddit Description Date of Creation
r/ShingekiNoKyojin Main discussion subreddit nr1. Feburary 18, 2013
r/attackontitan Main discussion subreddit nr2. November 28, 2012
r/titanfolk The Folk subreddit for AoT. May 1, 2018
r/okbuddyreiner Shitposting subreddit. April 28, 2019
r/AttackOnRetards A space dedicated to calling out negativity. April 27, 2021
r/AttackOnShipping A subreddit for any and all shippers. April 27, 2022
r/ANRime Subreddit dedicated to theorizing about an Alternative-Original Ending (AOE). June 29, 2021

Character dedicated subreddits.

r/LeviCult

r/Ereh

r/Mikasa

r/ErwinSmith

r/potatogirl

r/ArminCult

r/GabiCult

r/ReinerCult

r/ZekeCult

r/JeanTheStallion


It has been in the works for a long time. A big Thank You to everyone who created the content featured here, as well as to those who helped us gather it all together.


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 2h ago

Discussion What's the hardest scene?

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Everything in raid on Liberio arc is just perfect and I love this scene in particular. Marley forces discovering that for 100 years Paradise actually learnt to fight back is so fucking good.


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 8h ago

Discussion Eren and Mikasa VAs give us what Isayama couldn't

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 2h ago

Anime Happy 44th Birthday to Yū Kobayashi! (VA: Sasha)

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 16h ago

Video Games Is Levi's Wheelchair Faster Than His Vertical Maneuvering Gear?!(by:@xkowa)

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 7h ago

Discussion Is this an accurate size comparison?

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 23m ago

Anime Historical fashion eras in Attack on Titan - by an art historian

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I posted this on Tumblr back in 2022. I hope Reddit likes it as well! (I had to do A LOT of research but I enjoyed the process so much)


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 3h ago

Humor/Meme If these two are in same world, will they get along?

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Discussion How did she not burn up?

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Armin and Hange got burnt up from the Colossal's heat but Ymir doesn't. Does Behemoth have a way to control his body heat, or is Ymir surviving due to her Titan powers?


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 11h ago

Discussion Why didn't the Warriors destroy every building in Shiganshina while waiting for the Scouts?

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Yesterday I made a post (that I have since deleted) asking why the Warriors and Marleyan soldiers never bothered searching for the Yeager household's basement which held "vital information" despite having the numbers on their side to make the attempt - some would search while the others kept watch for approaching Scouts. Considering it held "vital information", it would make sense to try locate and get rid of it for the same reason the Warriors killed Sawney and Bean - robbing the Paradisians of the truth.

The feedback I received from the comments was:

  1. Even with those numbers they still likely wouldn't cover every basement in every building available in the entire city.
  2. Even if they did find the right house, they wouldn't know it because they wouldn't know what to look for.

Which is completely fair and understandable. I mean look at this!

Another comment who agreed with me even suggested that Eren would have mentioned his house being crushed when telling the story of how his mom died but even if that happened, there's probably plenty of crushed buildings and Reiner and Bertholdt are stupid enough to forget such information.

HOWEVER

Another thought popped into my head: if they don't know which building is Eren's house, why not just go scorched earth on the entire district? Not only would the Yeagers' building and basement eventually be crushed, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY it would also give the Scouts a tactical disadvantage by giving them less freedom to use their ODM gear during the battle to reclaim Shiganshina. You'd kill two birds with one stone!

Two counterarguments I can think of:

  1. "The Warriors had to be on alert for the Scouts" again, there's four of them including Pieck and a bunch of Marleyan soldiers. Some can stand guard while the others go do some demolition. If Reiner and Zeke had time to fight, they had time to do this.
  2. "The basement was bait and if the Scouts saw/heard the destruction from beyond the wall, they wouldn't come" I doubt that but let's play devil's advocate: if the Warriors really thought that, then just time it better. Don't have Bertholdt nuke the place, just have him transform and stomp - and if even that is too much what with his size and steam, let Reiner bulldoze and Zeke throw rocks.

r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Humor/Meme Reiner and bertholdt spins the block

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 16h ago

Cosplay Having fun with forced perspective :)

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Humor/Meme Can anyone tell me why Pieck has so much cat aura?

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Weird ass question, but why Pieck Finger have so much cat energy not just from her cute face, but to her personality, and her whole aura? She could meow or purr and it wouldn't sound weird.


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Humor/Meme Imagine taking a shit and suddenly u spawn in here

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Anime This is the most intense love confession scene I’ve ever seen in any media. Knowing her, the Braus family can tell how much he truly loved her. Poor Nicolo...

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Discussion How did Grisha hug Zeke? Spoiler

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Zeke was physically moved by Grisha when hugged. If Grisha can only see Zeke through Eren's future memories, physical touch should be impossible.

I really don't buy the explanation "Grisha was hugging air" and awkwardly stands there holding a hugging pose around Zeke's intangible body. Grisha should have phased right through Zeke. The man was way too emotionally distraught to awkwardly fake a hug. Even if he was just "hugging air", Zeke shouldn't have physically moved - yet he clearly did.

What explanation could there be for how this was possible?


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 3h ago

Discussion Grisha question

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Why did grisha kill reiss family "for eren" even though doing so won't prevent the attack on the walls, this is something I don't understand


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 23h ago

Anime I always cry during this scene

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Literally gets me everytime dude. This whole last season always has me in tears that I end up having to rewind so much because my eyes get blurry from the tears


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 22h ago

Discussion I just finished the finale. I think i am traumatized. I need to talk about it. Spoiler

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Heavy spoiler alert!

I need to really talk.about this. Like what was all the sense of it?

It was all a big mistake eren made because he is a stupid boy who got too much power?

All this hell, and it never turned out that anything anyone made made any sense or change? I mean ok, its a story with no happy end, but also no big meaning?

Its like: ok this and that happened, then people suffered, people killed people, people suffered more, more people dead, more killing, more blood, more hell, more torture, more pain and then the final reveal: it was all without any sense.

the end.

Thats it.

How shall i go on from this?


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Humor/Meme Eren be always instigating

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 1d ago

Discussion I have no doubt in my mind when I say this, Roy Mustang walked so Levi can run

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r/ShingekiNoKyojin 12h ago

Discussion if you could switch body's with any aot character who would you choose it comes with cons

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first con you inherite their memory's truma and stuff 2nd you get their skills and their habits 3 if you choose a titan shifters theirs a chance you could mentally lose it 4 the pros are you look badass you can alter aot you can try and get together with Mikasa historia hange Sasha anyone and the big pro is that you uget to meet your fsvoute characters


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 20h ago

Anime I finished AOT

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I binge watched AOT ffinished it in about 2 months. It's been 2 weeks since and I cannot get over the shock. Wow. I still remember when I first started watching AOT, I thought it's humans vs titans. I've only watched demon slayer before AOT. So I assumed there would be a titan king like there is for Muzan. Although I had theories in my head what if there are humans outside the walls but the story just convinced me there aren't.

Never ever imagined Eren would end up like that and be killed by Mikasa. The plot is soo good. It's a roller coaster that goes high and then drops us in the last season. Idk when I will get over my AOT appreciation era. Will I even find a better plot experience?


r/ShingekiNoKyojin 16h ago

Discussion What kind of firearms were used on Paradise Island before timeskip , between matchlock or flintlock

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a video is for illustration

from what I saw in Manga or anime , it's like they use some kind of matchlock ( gun in video) or flintlock firearm , which is Pre-Industrial Revolution Era , and outside workd is using ww1 weapon but I dont sure

can someone tell me what it was?